Author: jcharry

Using this char-rnn tensorflow implementation to generate HTML feels almost too easy, but I was curious to see how a network could learn not only how to syntactically write HTML, but if it would also learn about any underlying commonalities between web pages. The theory being that much of the…

Much of what’s to follow is simply me trying to sum up what I’ve learned in an attempt to internalize and understand this information. There’s a lot of detail in how packets are transmitted, and just wrapping my head around it took a good deal of reading, thinking, and processing.…

Introduction What I’m super curious to detangle using traceroute is how connected is the internet, really? Seems like a pretty silly question, since obviously every page on the internet is theoretically linked to every other address, even if that connection is extremely distant. But what I want to discover is…

Idea Coincidentally, I had been thinking about maps for a while when it came time to think about fleshing out an idea for this project. So, the idea really started with a picture of a map in my head. That naturally led to the idea of ‘place poems’. Basically, could…

Hero shot Process I mocked up a rough version of the lamp I wanted to make in Vectorworks. I planned on doing a lot of the work by hand, so it wasn’t so much to get realistic dimensions but more just to get a feel for how it would…

Introduction See or tell is a “getting to know you” app that aims bring two anxious daters closer together by exposing the personal content on their phones. Motivation Phones are more and more intrusive these days. It’s hard to go an entire meal without someone checking their phone for facebook…

I’m thinking of making a lamp – and with the 4-axis, now I have the opportunity to make a custom base for it. I had a piece of 1/2″ thick walnut that would make a great testing ground. Ideally after getting the part just the way I want it, I’d…

Rationale and concept I’ll be working with Dalit on a final app – and we’ve decided to take a critical look at how mobile technology inserts itself into our lives by making a satirical ‘conversation helper’ app. It’s based on the assumption that as computers get better at decoding what…

I really had no idea what to make. For whatever reason I felt stumped this week. So I made a really simple letter ‘J’ using the 4-axis mill. I cut a piece of scrap plywood to size and used an 1/8″ flat bit. The setup was smooth. I added some…

For this assignment, I modularized my Midterm assignment and put the relevant chunks of code into functions within a module. The simplest thing to do was to just wrap stuff up in functions, but the value of functions is make code both reusable and flexible. After looking at my code…